Prof Roger Mason

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

ram@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Professor Mason's broad research areas are political thought and culture in late medieval and early modern Scotland; the development of national consciousness and identities in Britain, 1100-1700; Renaissance and Reformation studies.

Professor Mason is founding director of the St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research. He is a former editor of the Scottish Historical Review and general editor of the 10 volume New Edinburgh History of Scotland published by Edinburgh University Press.

He has published extensively in the field of Scottish political thought, including acclaimed editions of the writings of John Knox and George Buchanan, and also on issues of religious and political identity in Scotland from the Wars of Independence to the Union of Parliaments.

Selected publications

• Debating Britain in seventeenth-century Scotland: multiple monarchy and Scottish sovereignty

  Mason, R. A., Apr 2015, In: Journal of Scottish Historical Studies. 35, 1, p. 1-24

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Certeine Matters Concerning the Realme of Scotland: George Buchanan and Scottish Self-Fashioning at the Union of the Crowns

  Mason, R. A., 2013, In: Scottish Historical Review. 92, 1, p. 38-65 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Beyond the Declaration of Arbroath: kingship, counsel and consent in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

  Mason, R. A., Jun 2014, Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300-1625: Essays in Honour of Jenny Wormald. Boardman, S. (ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 265-282 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access

  1603: multiple monarchy and Scottish identity

  Mason, R., 11 Jul 2020, In: History. 105, 366, p. 402-421 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Declaration of Arbroath in print, 1680-1705

  Mason, R. A., 1 Nov 2021, In: The Innes Review. 72, 2, p. 158-176 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Dame Scotia and the Commonweal: vernacular humanism in The Complaynt of Scotland (1550)

  Mason, R. A., 5 Nov 2021, In: The Mediaeval Journal. 10, 1, p. 129-150 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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